Langan Landscape Architecture + Planning for Colleges & Universities

Sense of Place

Langan Landscape Architects and Planners understand what makes places work. We shape effective design solutions that range from regional or city scale down to the most intimate courtyards and garden spaces. In every project we strive to identify and enhance the “sense of place,” which makes every site unique and memorable. This places us at the forefront of the rebirth of our cities and aging downtowns, guiding their revitalization as destinations where people live, work, shop and play.

Langan Landscape Architecture + Planning Services:

Site Feasibility and Yield Studies

  • High Performance Site Planning
  • Land Development Approvals
  • Brownfield Redevelopment
  • Waterfront Design
  • Park and Playground Design
  • Complete Streets, Streetscape Design and Traffic Calming
  • Landscape Planting and Irrigation Design
  • Landscape Restoration Design
  • Contract Documents
  • Rooftop Garden Design
  • Site Lighting Design
  • Water Feature Design
  • Construction Administration and Inspection
  • Expert Testimony and Zoning Reviews
  • Community Outreach

St. Joseph’s University – Sweeney Field Restoration

OVERVIEW
Langan provided site/civil, geotechnical, and permitting services for the overall restoration and rehabilitation of the St. Joseph's University Sweeney Field and the surrounding running track. Langan also provided civil and structural engineering services for the expansion of the bleachers and press box. Our team planned the project to eliminate the need for stormwater permitting, prepared restoration plans, and designed drainage improvements to alleviate problematic existing drainage conditions. Additionally, we provided a topographic and utility surveys, drainage investigation and evaluation, and site engineering design and construction documents. The university required a fast-track design and construction schedule in order to accommodate their athletics schedule. Langan administrated the design, bidding, and construction to meet the demanding schedule requirements.

Location
Philadelphia, PA

Client
St. Joseph’s University

Services
Site/Civil
Landscape Architecture
Surveying/Geospatial


St. Joseph’s University – Retail, Parking, and Streetscape

OVERVIEW
Langan developed a context-sensitive campus streetscape design for a new campus bookstore, cafe, and restaurant that will front a new parking structure on campus. The site incorporated intensive stormwater management planning to comply with evolving Philadelphia Water Department regulations. The urban streetscape incorporates large planting trenches below the paving to provide a sustainable rooting area for street trees.

Location
Philadelphia, PA

Client
O'Donnell & Naccarato

Services
Site/Civil
Landscape Architecture


Temple University Aramark STAR Complex

OVERVIEW
The Temple University Aramark Student Training & Recreation Center (STAR) Complex sits on a 4-acre site and includes an enclosed 60-yard football practice field, recreational facilities, a neighborhood recreational track, classroom space for the College of Public Health, green stormwater infrastructure, and a landscaped entry plaza. Langan provided site/civil engineering, landscape architecture, and survey services to facilitate the development. In addition to providing design and engineering services, Langan was responsible for securing land development permits from the Philadelphia Water Department and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.

Location
Philadelphia, PA

Client
Temple University

Services
Site/Civil
Surveying/Geospatial
Landscape Architecture


Lafayette College – Rockwell Integrated Sciences Center

OVERVIEW
Lafayette College’s approximately 80,000-SF new Integrated Sciences Center is situated on Anderson Courtyard and adjacent to the Acopian Engineering Center. The project meets the US Green Building Council’s LEED Gold Status – one of the highest industry standards for sustainability. Langan was the site/civil consultant for the project and responsible for site feasibility services to evaluate various site configurations, zoning and code implications, as well as providing landscape architecture and planning. Langan was also responsible for the preparation of land development drawings and the submission of these drawings to local, county and state review agencies.

Location
Easton, PA

Client
Lafayette College

Services
Site/Civil
Landscape Architecture

Architect
Payette


Kean University – Mt. Paul Campus

OVERVIEW
Kean University has assembled a design team to create an ecological studies campus in the Highlands region of New Jersey. The university will operate the new facility that will include classroom and lab space along with student housing. Preliminary programming work projects capacity for 500-600 students rotating through the facility with 100-200 students on-site at any one time. Langan is providing an array of site, environmental, and permitting support services for the project.

Location
Jefferson, NJ

Client
Kean University

Services
Site/Civil
Landscape Architecture
Traditional Surveying
Geotechnical
Natural Resources & Permitting
Environmental

Architect
Grimshaw Architects


Kean University – STEM Building

OVERVIEW
Langan provided site/civil engineering and landscape architecture peer review services on this new STEM building on Kean University’s Union Campus. The 118,000 SF new research and academic building houses collaborative space for classrooms, state-of-the-art laboratories, conference and meeting rooms, and a restaurant. Langan reviewed the grading and drainage plan and landscape designs on the project. We designed a new handicap accessible sidewalk leading to the building’s main entrance.

Location
Union, NJ

Client
Kean University

Service
Peer Review

Architect
Cannon Design


Rutgers University – Livingston Campus Mall

OVERVIEW
The Livingston Campus Mall project redesigned a 1.5-acre promenade through the center of this Rutgers campus. The mall serves as the primary pedestrian connection for residence, classroom, library and dining facilities. The west end of the mall was integrated with the new Livingston Campus Student Center. To develop a unified design, Langan worked with key campus staff to conceptualize a design theme of small plazas connected by the cohesive paving patterns of proposed walkways.
AWARDS
New Jersey ASLA Award

Location
Piscataway, NJ

Client
Rutgers University

Services
Landscape Architecture
Surveying/Geospatial
Site/Civil


Catholic University of America – Maloney Hall

OVERVIEW
Maloney Hall, a Gothic‐style building built in 1917, will be adapted and updated to serve as the Busch School of Business and Economics for Catholic University. The updated building will accommodate classrooms, offices, auditoriums, and public spaces. Langan’s site design converted the west parking lot to a pedestrian plaza and included the design of patterned plaza paving, custom granite benches, and the layout for gracious new entry stairs, seat walls, and access ramps that complement the building architecture for the new main west entrance. Our team redesigned the eastern parking lot to handle all service access and to provide a home for new utilities, which are screened to provide pleasant views from the buildings.

Location
Washington, DC

Client
The Catholic University of America

Services
Site/Civil
Landscape Architecture
Surveying/Geospatial

Architect
STUDIOS Architecture


St. John’s University – St. Vincent’s Stairs

OVERVIEW
Langan developed the design for a new monumental staircase connecting the campus academic core with a growing residential section of the campus. Langan designed the stairs as a series of three generous ‘trays’ to allow for social interaction and ‘chance meetings’ between students, faculty and administrators as they move between the different areas of the campus and to the communal dining hall at the foot of the staircase. Langan also designed the site lighting for the stair project and provided full site/civil, geotechnical and structural design for the walls and terraces. Langan continues to develop and implement the master plan with paving, lighting, roadway and landscape campus improvements.

Location
Queens, NY

Client
St. John's University

Services
Landscape Architecture
Site/Civil
Surveying/Geospatial

Architect
Perkins Eastman Architects


University of Connecticut – Innovation Partnership Building

OVERVIEW
The 115,000 SF Innovation Partnership Building is the first building within UConn's Technology Park campus, developed to connect leading industries with advanced research facilities and foster innovative solutions for real-world problems. We provided survey, geotechnical and civil engineering, and landscape architecture for this project. Our site design minimized impacts to the primarily wooded lot and reduced the views of parking along the roadway through grading and landscape design. Additionally, our stormwater management design implemented a low-impact development approach that seeks to protect and minimize disruption to the existing natural resources and environmentally sensitive areas. The project was submitted for LEED Silver certification.
AWARDS
2019 ENR New England Best Projects, Higher Education/Research, Award of Merit
2018 AIA Connecticut Design Award

Location
Storrs, CT

Client
University of Connecticut

Services
Site/Civil
Geotechnical
Landscape Architecture
Traditional Surveying

Architect
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill


University of Connecticut – School of Fine Arts

OVERVIEW
Langan collaborated with H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture LLC to provide professional site/civil engineering, landscape architecture, and survey services for the implementation of select portions of the Fine Arts Master Plan within UConn’s main campus in Storrs, Connecticut. The project transformed the northern ‘back’ of the theatre arts building with a new scene production shop building designed by H3 Architecture and a gracious, new north entrance to the arts complex and improved access to Von der Mehden Hall. Langan helped transform the grade differential between the building entry and the site into sculptural stairs and a universally accessible ramp. These site features create a counterpoint to the building volume while stretching out into the landscape as sculptural elements that can also serve as an informal amphitheater for impromptu performances.

Location
Storrs, CT

Client
University of Connecticut

Services
Site/Civil
Landscape Architecture
Surveying/Geospatial
Geotechnical
Traffic & Transportation

Architect
H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture LLC


University of Connecticut – Gateway at Fine Arts

OVERVIEW
As part of a strategic public/private partnership among the town of Storrs, the adjacent Storrs Center Development, and the university, UCONN saw a need for a new southern Gateway at this newly activated intersection, connecting students, faculty, residents, and visitors in a pedestrian-oriented downtown. Langan’s team of landscape architects and site/civil engineers worked closely with university landscape architects to design a new streetscape for UCONN’s Fine Arts Campus. The site serves as a pedestrian connection between the Nafe Katter Theatre, home to the Connecticut Repertory Theatre, the Von der Mehden Recital Hall, and the School of Fine Arts.

Location
Mansfield, CT

Client
University of Connecticut

Services
Landscape Architecture
Site/Civil
Surveying/Geospatial


Selected Projects